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by Mr. Butter at Karluk in 1903; 19 specimens collected in L903 in Naha Hay by Mr. Chamberlain, who 

 also collected 2 specimens in Yes Bay in 1905. 



This species ha* been recorded I Bean 1882) from Sitka: Alexandrovsk, Cook Inlet; Wrangell; Mary 

 Island and Tongass i Bean 1Ss4i. and Karluk . Hutt.-r ls99). 



Fio B2 Oligocottua maculoaus Girard. 

 153. Sigmistes caulias Rutter. 

 Originally described by Rutter 1899) from Karluk. 



Fw. 83. Sigmistes caulias Rutter. i pe 

 154. Blennicottus acuticeps (Gilbert I. 



Head 3.75 in length; depth 5; eye3.9in head; snout I. maxillarj 2.5; mandible 2; dorsal vm 15; 

 anal 11; pectoral 13; ventral i. 3; branch iostegals 6. 



Body rather elongate, the dorsal contour arched under the spin.. us dorsal, tapering behind to a 

 slender caudal peduncle, the leasl depth of which equals eye; head rather small, iis upper profile 

 arched; mouth small, horizontal, maxillary reaching to anterior margin of orbit; teeth in vuiform 

 hands on jaw.-, vomer, and palatines; interorbital rather narrow com ave; snoul rather sharp and pointed; 

 nasal spines present, rather strong; one pair of supraorbital and two pairs of occipital cirri, these rather 

 long; preopercle with only one (the uppei i spine present, this covered with skin when exposed it is 

 seen to be rather sharp and stout, curved upward; gill-membranes forming a broad fold across isthmus; 

 no evident slit behind last gill-arch; a rather strong suprascapular spine; spinous dorsal rather high, 

 of uniform height, the slender spines i :; in head) united to their tips by the thin transparent membrane, 

 the base of spinous dorsal a trifle longer than head: soft dorsal somewhat lower, its rays longer than 

 spines. l'.I in head, but slanting backward when 6n is extended; base of soft dorsal 2.75 in head: the 

 anal about the same length; pectoral long, graduated, the lowest rays short and stout, free at the en, Is 

 and hooked, the I in extending beyond origin of anal, nearly as long as head; ventral 1.5 in head, rather 

 long and narrow, extending beyond vent and nearly to base of anal; caudal somewhat narrow, rounded, 

 its length 1.2 in head. 



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